A slightly enlarged version of Gastaldi's 1548 Ptolemy; in 1561 a new translation of Ptolemy by Ruscelli was published in Venice by Valgrisi, and the same map plates were used for Latin editions in 1562 and 1564. Relief shown pictorially. Text on...

Naval chart, which is a slightly enlarged version of Gastaldi's Ptolemy published in 1548. In 1561 a new translation of Ptolemy by Ruscelli was published in Venice by Valgrisi, and Latin editions in 1562 and 1564 used the same map plates. This copy...

View of the Northern Hemisphere down to about latitude 35°. Western North America is largely absent and California appears to be an island. The Northeast Passage is clearly shown but there is no definite Northwest Passage. There is an...

View of the Northern Hemisphere down to about latitude 35°. Western North America is largely absent and California appears to be an island. The Northeast Passage is clearly shown but there is no definite Northwest Passage. There is an...

Title from caption. On May 11, 1926, the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen, accompanied by the American Lincoln Ellsworth, the Italian Umberto Nobile (who had constructed the vessel and flew it), the pilot Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, who...

30 second excerpt shows the roadhouse built, owned and operated by Italian immigrant Maurice Morino (1870-1937) at McKinley Park (later called Denali National Park and Preserve); the backside of the entrance sign to McKinley Park; the McKinley Park...

The Alaska ferry, Wickersham, was purchased by the State of Alaska from the Swedish Stena Line for $6,960,000.00 in April, 1968, having only been built and in service for 6 months. Originally named M.V. Stena Brittanica, the ferry left Gothenberg,...